Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is the North American seat of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Founded in 1976, the monastery features traditional teachings as transmitted by Kagyu Lineage meditation masters since the 10th century. The center is located on a 24-acre site in the heart of the Catskill Mountains above Woodstock, New York.

Lama Kathy Wesley, Lama Repa Dorje Odzer, Jan Tarlin
Buddhist teachings on the transforming power of compassion can help us throughout our lives, and especially at the time of death. . August 7-12

BUDDHISM 101

What is Buddhism, and how can we apply its practices to our everyday lives? Khenpo Tenkyong explains that it is much more than meditating, reciting mantras and daily prostrations. August 14-16

Family Day

Bodhi Kids uses the arts, storytelling and environmental awareness activities to convey the Buddha’s teachings with activities suitable for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. August 16

Essential Mahamudra: The Union of Shamatha and Vipassana

Her Eminence Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche will give a weekend Dharma Teaching at KTD.
August 24-26

KTD's 3rd Annual Stupa Pilgrimage

Aug 27 - Sep 1

Emotional Healing from Trauma

Lama Tsultrim Yeshe, James L. Knoll IV, M.D., Trish Malone and Kell Julliard.
Buddhism has a lot to say about suffering — its source, its cause and how it can be relieved. This retreat, which combines knowledge gained from Western psychological science and Buddhist teachings, is designed to help people of all denominations recover from traumatic experiences and loss. August 28-30

Lama Kathy Wesley, Lama Repa Dorje Odzer, Jan Tarlin
Buddhist teachings on the transforming power of compassion can help us throughout our lives, and especially at the time of death. . August 7-12

BUDDHISM 101

What is Buddhism, and how can we apply its practices to our everyday lives? Khenpo Tenkyong explains that it is much more than meditating, reciting mantras and daily prostrations. August 14-16

Family Day

Bodhi Kids uses the arts, storytelling and environmental awareness activities to convey the Buddha’s teachings with activities suitable for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. August 16

Essential Mahamudra: The Union of Shamatha and Vipassana

Her Eminence Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche will give a weekend Dharma Teaching at KTD.
August 24-26

KTD's 3rd Annual Stupa Pilgrimage

Aug 27 - Sep 1

Emotional Healing from Trauma

Lama Tsultrim Yeshe, James L. Knoll IV, M.D., Trish Malone and Kell Julliard.
Buddhism has a lot to say about suffering — its source, its cause and how it can be relieved. This retreat, which combines knowledge gained from Western psychological science and Buddhist teachings, is designed to help people of all denominations recover from traumatic experiences and loss. August 28-30

In this colorful illustrated journal, artist and writer Barbara Bash has re-created her chronicles of meditation and contemplative wandering during a series of solitary country retreats. Combining beautifully handwritten notes with watercolor-and-pencil drawings, she captures exquisite moments of magic in the natural environment: a dragonfly's brief pause, a surprised deer in tall grass, a lumbering skunk's visit, the woods at twilight. Anyone nourished by the natural world will recognize in Barbara a kindred spirit and find hours of pleasure in these pages. For this new paperback edition Barbara has added 16 pages of drawing exercises, utilizing the principles of heaven, earth and human in a fresh approach to nature journaling.

Though the abhidharma is recognized as one of the major topics of the Buddhist teachings, up until now there have been few translations of any of the great texts on it available in a Western language. This book contains a translation of one of the greatest presentations of abhidharma in any tradition, Vasubandhu's Verses on the Treasury of Abhidharma, along with the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje's clear and concise explanation of it, Youthful Play. Taken together, these two works give a thorough explanation of the abhidharma of the Foundation vehicle as taught in the northern Buddhist traditions that spread to Tibet as well as to China and other East Asian countries. Indeed, this text will be helpful for those studying the abhidharma of all traditions.

First Karmapa: The Life and Teachings of Dusum KhyenpaNine hundred years ago, the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, inspired his disciples through his teachings and through the example of his life. This first English translation of his teachings and biographies allows contemporary readers to experience this great masters forthright manner, feel his commitment to practice, and receive the teachings he gave in both word and deed.